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Article: Yummy bugs.
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- Science News for Kids
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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This summer, the Audubon Nature Institute is opening another museum in New Orleans. Its restaurant will offer everything from soup and main courses to desserts. But the foods will contain ingredients U.S. diners would usually complain about finding on their plates: bugs.
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We're talking about grasshoppers, the worm-like larvae of wax moths, ants--even the occasional dragonfly.
Although unusual as food items, bugs do make sense here because this is the Insectarium (in sek TAIR' ee um). As its unusual name implies, the entire museum will be devoted to the world's six-legged species.
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